The Envelope Of The Spirit

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The  Envelope  of  the  Spirit

Uranda   November 19, 1953

Tonight I would like to share with you a little meditation on some of the factors which are very closely related to the service in which we are engaged, some of the problems and some of the principles which confront us. Always it is needful that we keep centered, that we remain true to the agreement with God, and to that end let us begin our meditation tonight with a moment of devotion.

Our gracious Lord and holy King, we thank Thee for the privilege we have of abiding under the evidence of Thy presence, that because the evidence of Thy presence is made manifest in and through us Thy kingdom is caused to appear and Thy will is caused to be done in earth as it is in heaven, that all who respond may truly come to know that Thine is the kingdom, the dominion, the control. No matter how human beings may resist or fight, no matter how they may seek to escape or turn aside, Thine is the control, Thine is the kingdom, and though human beings may do many things contrary to Thy will, they cannot escape from Thy control, the working of Thy Law. We thank Thee that as we realize that this is so, we recognize that there are two ways by which we may come under subjection to Thee: one, the easy way of response and acceptance, of yielded body and mind and heart; and the other, of resistance, of fighting, of attempting to follow devious ways. This is the hard way, which nevertheless brings human beings under subjection to Thy kingdom, Thy dominion and Thy control; for he who fights against Thee but defeats himself, and he who resists Thy yearning love creates for himself the torment of hell.

But we know that all who respond may come to see that Thine is the power—for there is no power except the power that is of Thee, and without Thee there is no power in any person or in anything—and that if Thy power is used according to Thy will, it brings forth blessings, it reveals beauty, it establishes that which is of the divine design in the expression of glorious life. But if this power which is of Thee is used contrary to Thy will it is a foolish thing, for then human beings, stealing Thy power, seek to use that power to defeat the source of the very power by which they act. He who would turn Thy power in upon Thee to defeat Thee is surely foolish, ignorant and unwise, for thereby, as a channel for the manifestation of power, he establishes within himself a pattern of chaos, of turmoil and of disintegration. Those channels by which Thy power is caused to work against Thee must, by the very action which they induce, destroy themselves from the face of the earth, for Thine is the control and Thine is the kingdom, Thine is the power by which all things whatsoever are done, and that which is contrary to the correct uses of Thy power destroys the channels through which Thy power is made manifest. It has been so down through these centuries, down through the millennia, that all the children of men may know that those in whom the power is not allowed to operate constructively must themselves be destroyed by their own actions. For Thine is the power, yea, and Thine is the glory, the glory of the manifestation of the abundant life, the glory of the increasing expression of life, the glory of accomplishment in a creative life, and anything that diminishes from that glory is attempting to act contrary to Thy will and therefore, separating itself from Thee, causes itself to cease to exist.

Cycle after cycle and generation after generation these things have been established in the lives of the children of men, that all who have eyes to see may comprehend and realize with clear vision the truth and cease working against Thee, by the wrong uses of Thine own power, and cease trying to escape from Thy dominion or to function contrary to Thy control; for he who so functions does indeed remove himself from the realms of glory in the increasing creative life, and he establishes himself in the realms of chaos and turmoil, of conflict, of disintegration and decay, until he shall be no more. No one can successfully for long turn Thy power in upon Thee, seeking to defeat Thee, seeing Thou art the source of all power now and forever. We thank Thee, therefore, for the sweet realization of the glorious truth that Thine IS the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. We would so live, and let Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven, that the increase of Thy kingdom and Thy power and Thy glory may be made manifest on earth, and that we may cease from all foolishness and accept that dominion and the right uses of Thy power and the sharing of Thy glory, for it is so established in Shekinah, now and forever, to all who shall come to know the spirit of the living Christ. Aum-en.

We have cause for much rejoicing in the increasing manifestation of God's provision. During the recent period of our absence from you in person you allowed something of that manifestation of provision to appear. You saw signs or evidences of the working of the Law; and yet you know that the Law is not fully bringing forth that which is constructive in relationship to your individual lives, for our collective function. There is evidence that part of the application in the use of power has been on the destructive side, which is to say, contrary to the divine purposes for the use of the power.

Let us note briefly something with respect to this power. We have physical bodies designed particularly for the physical manifestation of this power. We have minds designed particularly to allow the mental manifestation of this power. And we have hearts, or emotional natures, particularly designed to allow the feeling manifestation of this power. In addition there is, as the result of these, the manifestation of the spirit and the atmosphere, the envelope if you please, in which we live or exist, which is particularly designed as a means by which the higher spiritual aspect of this power may be invisibly made manifest in the atmosphere of our lives. Now we see that when by reason of variations from centering, variations from the basic agreement, we ignorantly or wilfully, even for a moment, turn the expression of the power in against the source of the power, we thereby place ourselves in a position of opposition to God, contrary to the will of God, and begin to separate ourselves from the source of the power. Thereby we have the basic cause of all physical illness, we have the basic cause of all mental disturbance, we have the basic cause of all emotional turmoil, we have the basic cause of all ill characteristics in the spirit pattern of the envelope of being.

This envelope corresponds, as you will recall from our previous meditations, to the envelope of atmosphere, air, which surrounds and envelops the earth itself. We have recognized that our business is to begin to change the envelope. We know that whatever we may seem to do in relationship to the physical, the mental, the emotional, in any direct sense, has no bearing, no meaning, no value whatsoever, except as by that means we are afforded an opportunity to begin to change the envelope. And by reason of our previous meditations, we clearly recognize that the changes in the physical organism, the mind and the heart definitely follow as the envelope is changed. Whatever is established in the envelope becomes imposed upon that which is contained within the envelope. And this envelope of spirit, atmosphere, the firmament if you please, which God calls heaven, is manifest on an individual basis with respect to each and every one.

Now if that which is contained within the envelope, in the sense of the human being, responds to factors contrary to the divine design, characteristics are established in the envelope which are not of heaven but of hell, and forthwith the physical, the mental, and the emotional patterns of being begin to partake of the nature, the characteristics, of the envelope. It is true that these three phases of human function have a definite part to play in relationship to the nature of the envelope, and it is by reason of their function that this envelope is either heaven or hell. But the actual conditions which begin to appear in the physical, mental and emotional phases of being do not appear until the vibratory factors, either of heaven or of hell, have first been established in the envelope. So even though you, as a human being, partake of the creative function which establishes the condition in the envelope, that condition does not come back to you until it is established in the envelope.

As you recall these things as they have been clearly set forth in our earlier meditations, you also recall that it is utterly impossible for anyone to do anything by himself, and here is one of the most grievous errors into which human minds tend to fall, because human beings are inclined to like to feel that they can do something by themselves, that the individual can accomplish something of himself or herself. This has been one of the great lies of the adversary by which human beings have remained trapped in the chaotic condition down through the centuries. But you cannot do anything on earth by yourself. You may say, “Yes, I acknowledge that. I certainly have to have God with me. But whatever power comes from God and that I have, I can use all by myself.” No, that is a contemptible lie. You can't. You can't do anything by yourself, even from an outer standpoint, without the cooperation of some other human being. Anything, whether you are aware of the fact or not, whatever it may be, little or large, must have in some fashion the agreement of someone else or you cannot do it, I do not care what it is. You cannot even think, you cannot speak, you cannot act in relationship to yourself or another, in anything, except on the basis of agreement between you and someone else.

Now you may not have any awareness of who that someone else is, or of how the vibratory factors of the agreement are worked out, but it is impossible for you to do anything without God, yes, without Shekinah, yes, that is true; but you cannot do anything without the agreement of some other human being. So we are reminded of the vital importance of the basic factors of agreement, and it takes two on earth before anything can be done. And when it is done on earth it is by reason of the power of the Father, whether it is a good thing, a bad thing, a mediocre thing, regardless of anything. So anything that is done is done by the power of God, made manifest through Shekinah. But it is impossible to use Shekinah, or the forces made manifest by Shekinah, without the agreement of some other human being. Anything that you express is in agreement with someone. You may not know who it is, consciously, but anything that you express, no matter what it is, of the divine or of the devil, is in agreement with someone.

It follows, then, that we are in all things selecting those with whom we are in agreement, and in relationship to that agreement each one is either carrying a positive point of polarity, seeking those who will agree, or he is carrying a negative point of polarity to someone who has the positive point of polarity in relationship to that which is expressed; for you cannot do anything except in relationship to that agreement with someone else, whether you know it or not. You cannot even breathe except as there is agreement with someone else. You cannot speak any word, you cannot arise from the chair where you sit, you cannot do anything, you cannot live for thirty seconds, except on the basis of agreement with someone else. I have pointed this out to you before, it is not new to you; but I emphasize it tonight so that you may be reminded of the vital importance of selectivity in relationship to those with whom you agree, for there is someone on earth who will agree with you. No matter how vile, or how good, there is someone who will agree with you. It does not make any difference what you may do, or not do, what course of action you may take, there is someone on earth who will agree with you in relationship to that thing.

Now it very often takes much longer to find someone who will agree with you on the basis of a divinely ordained pattern than it does to find someone who will agree with you on some deceptive pattern. It is so easy to find agreement in relationship to anything that is disintegrating, decaying, going down. Sometimes it takes longer, on a basis of selectivity, to find real agreement on the constructive, truly creative basis, and in the interval you will be finding individuals who are inviting you to agree with them on all kinds of destructive things. If you do so, you become subject to them. If, on the other hand, you remember your agreement with God and refuse to enter into agreement with others who ask you, by the very vibratory factors which surround you all the time in the mass consciousness of the world, who are constantly asking you to agree with them on some wrong things, if you refuse to do it and are true, you will find that with the pattern clearing in your own envelope you will be able to become aware of the vibratory factors of those who will agree with you on the constructive step in the creative expression of life.

Now all agreement is creative, either creating the conditions for living or creating the conditions for dying, one or the other. Anything that one does in agreement—and you cannot do anything outside of agreement—is creative, creating the conditions for living or creating the conditions for dying. So we always have a choice, and that agreement into which you enter is important. If you only enter into the destructive agreement for a few minutes, it is still agreement, and the current of your power has been released in that which is in opposition to God. Therefore the effectiveness of life is diminished.

These things are of vital importance to us. We have so much to accomplish, and in some respects, we might say, so little time in which to do it. We are so few and the task so great, but we cannot afford to do anything which specifically, unnecessarily, delays our program. We need to do only those things which move toward the creation of the opportunity for living. The individual who spends enough of his time creating the condition for dying, so that he does not have a balance over, a credit on the right side shall we say, in relationship to his creative function, bringing forth an opportunity for living, is defeating himself, nullifying himself. And this process of nullifying oneself to some degree is still at work in all of you, some more than others. But it is something from which we have not yet emerged into a clear pattern wherein all of our functions are given to creating those conditions which make it possible to live.

Entering into agreement on earth is something which you do, whether you know it or not. Every time you change the vibratory keynote or nature of your expression, you are entering into agreement with someone else. What is the picture like at the close of a given day? With how many different patterns have you been in agreement? How many different things have you shared in creating? How many of these things are opposed to each other, contradictory, inconsistent? How many of the agreements were unnecessary? How many of these agreements were contrary to your own best interests, to say nothing of the best interests of others?

I am particularly leading, tonight, to a point of considering the Lord's provision. We have some very wonderful evidences of the Lord's provision, and from the Unit standpoint you have many times in the past tended to get into a corner and depend upon my creative function on the right pattern in order to pull out of a difficult situation and have the essential provision. You have tended this time, during my absence, to hold the line—there was no great increase in indebtedness; there was certain manifestation of the Lord's provision, and perhaps for the period, adequate—but the cycle is not clear in this regard, and I would that somehow I could help you to understand wherein you have in the past tended to so consistently defeat yourselves and increase the burden of my own load and responsibility.

I deem these things to be of vital importance. They are factors bearing a vital relationship to our service, in which you share. And these things relate to the question as to whether we are going to move forward speedily and effectively or not. I am talking about the degree to which you function creatively in agreement with me, creating the conditions which tend to make our program successful, rather than in agreement with my adversary, creating the conditions which tend to defeat us. You have done so many things, but there are still those things that provide needless waste in the vibratory creative field, and I have never yet been able to find the words to portray or bring about the realization of how it is that you so unwittingly and unnecessarily tend to defeat yourselves. We do not live to ourselves alone. We cannot do anything alone, and the question arises—With whom are you in agreement? How much of the day, with how many, are you in agreement during the day? We are creating all the time, all the time, whether we know it or not, think of it as such. Even now we are creating.

All things are made by Shekinah, and without Shekinah there is not anything made that is made. And we cannot use Shekinah except on the basis of agreement. You have to agree with someone who is working contrary to God to create something that is contrary to God. But if you are in agreement with God, then those who are likewise in agreement with God will be in agreement with you, and you can share agreement in the right range of true or constructive creative activity. These are simple, basic truths, which you have known, really, for a long time. We can do better than we have done. We can create only that which is of God, in our heaven, our envelope, our firmament here, and then that which is in the envelope will appear in the form, whatever it may be. You cannot just arbitrarily create some physical thing. Your function is in essence limited to its influence in the creative sense in the envelope. What you do to create a change in the envelope becomes the means by which a change is established in your body, your mind, your heart. No change can come in body or mind or heart except as that change is first made in the envelope, and if the change is made there on the basis of the true agreement with God, in the true expression, the right use of the creative power, the reality of divine dominion and the glory of life, we find that perhaps slowly, it may seem, but certainly, that which is of the divine pattern will emerge.

We sometimes encounter human beings—I have on occasion—where they think that they can more or less buy their way in relationship to God's service on earth, that they can, with their money or certain things, or something of the sort, change a condition and establish a situation acceptable to themselves. But it can't be done. If a person came here with a hundred million dollars, he could not buy anything; he couldn't buy a change, he couldn't buy something suitable, acceptable to himself. Why? Because he is trying then to use physical substance to change conditions in the physical world. He may seem to do that for a little time, but it will not endure. A change, to take place in the physical realm, must first take place in the envelope, and you cannot buy those things; it can't be done. You cannot buy the things of God, except perhaps in the sense of giving yourself utterly to the will of God, no longer seeking to impose your will, your determination and your desire.

As long as what you want is one of the primary factors in determining your function you are not helping God create heaven on earth. You may say, “But what I want is good.” I do not care what it is you want, no matter how good you think it is, you are still creating hell, you are still serving the devil. You have to reach a point where what you want is not in control. As long as what you want in a personal sense is allowed to control, you are sharing in the work of creating hell, no matter how good you may think that thing to be, no matter whether you think it is an improvement for yourself or someone else. We have to reach a point where we are flexible in the pattern of function, and where self, personal desire, is not in control.

So many people think they are selfless when they are not. They are selfless as long as it doesn't interfere with what they want. Oh, then they can be very selfless; but let it touch that and there is a stiffening, a resistance, a rebellion. “I don't like to do this! I don't want to do that!” All right, go ahead and create hell. We are either creating hell or heaven, and the results are going to appear right out here in this world. You do not have hell in the physical factors until you create hell in your envelope. You do not have heaven in the physical realm until you have created heaven in your envelope. That is the way it is. Whether we like it or not, that is the way it is. And the question is, How much more delay must we face before all of our unified energies are directed toward creating a unified envelope of heaven? You come here and I invite you into my envelope, and you enjoy it. When you come into this room and I am speaking to you, because you are in my personal envelope you find what you do. That could be our envelope. How long will it take until it is, until we have a Unit envelope in which there is no hell but only that heaven which God has designed and ordained?

So I thank God for you, and all that you have done in helping create heaven. I ignore, generally speaking, what you do to create hell, but it is there. How long? How long till we begin to realize the basic, fundamental truths of being, which you cannot alter or change? No one ever has and no one ever will. We accept it or perish—by the results of our own creating. What shall it be for us? What is the true nature of the service that we offer, and shall offer in the days to come, to the world of responding ones? Are we truly serving our Lord and King? Let us create heaven in the envelope, in the firmament, and see what happens on earth. Do you think we could afford to put it to the test? You can change the firmament but you cannot change the earth or the physical situation until the heaven is changed. You can struggle till you die trying to do something else, and you will fail. Just one way. Let it be the way to victory in the service of our King.

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